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American troops in combat
American troops in France
Armistice in Europe
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Battle of Cantigny
Battle of Château-Thierry
Eighteenth Amendment
Espionage Act
Fourteen Points
Germany to resume submarine warfare
Influenza epidemic
Meuse-Argonne offensive
Russian government overthrown
Russian withdrawal from war
Saint-Mihiel offensive
Schenck v. United States
Sedition Act
Selective Service Act
Sinking of the Arabic
Sinking of the Lusitania
Start of Great Migration
Sussex Pledge
Treaties with Central Powers
Treaty of Versailles
US declaration of neutrality
US declaration of war against Austria-Hungary
US entered World War I
US warning against German submarine attacks
Wilson asked for declaration of war
Woodrow Wilson elected president
Woodrow Wilson re-elected
World War I began
Zimmermann telegram released

People

Arthur Zimmermann
Emma Goldman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gertrude Stein
Henry Cabot Lodge
Herbert Hoover
Jeannette Rankin
John J. Pershing
Vladimir Lenin
William Jennings Bryan
Woodrow Wilson

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